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[essenceborn]

[ HE SURE DID ]

Why not?

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Someone in your "love life" is someone you have romantic or sexual interest in.

[essenceborn]

Oh!
In that case my love doesn't have a life. No one would have either of that interest me.

[ Because Nen approaches all of that from the same scientific concept of courtship and mating among...species... i.e. sexual interest and attraction are the result of hormones designed to propagate the species and since Nen can't do that there is no reason for anyone to feel that attraction!!

It's Elementary^TM

what the fuck is nen's emotional education, scientists?? ]

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[ NOW HOLD THE FUCK UP MS/MR ]

What kind of reasoning is that?! First of all, you're wrong.

[essenceborn]

What? Why?

[ Nen doesn't understand!!! ]

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We already established that you're attractive. That means plenty of people would be sexually interested in you!

But much more importantly, what makes you believe someone couldn't love you romantically?

[essenceborn]

It's just a matter of compatibility isn't it? I'm not viable as a reproductive partner. Once they realize that, it's obvious to find a more suitable candidate.

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There's so much more to these things than just reproduction, Neno. For example, why else would two men sleep together?

[essenceborn]

[ Neno....weh.... As weird as this conversation is, Nen's toes curl as they read over that a few times, happy. ]

Cohabitation? Warmth?

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Companionship. Affection. Love.

[essenceborn]

So they do it just because they like one another? It doesn't matter if they can't propagate?

[ pls don't @ nen's vocabulary when it comes to this stuff they are doing their best ]

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[ They're just using terms they can identify with, plants ]

Exactly! It's about both people's happiness.

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[ it's just plants all the way down at this point ]

That's really all that's required??

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Yup!

Does that change your assessment of your prospects?

[essenceborn]

[ oh my god is nen about to ask yuuto if he'd like to join nen's love life ]

I think so?
Every book I read made it seem like procreation was the only reason species engaged in that kind of behaviour.
This is really weird.

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[ ur welcome yuuto ]

Something tells me your readings were purely scientific. There's so much more to it than that.

[essenceborn]

Well of course they were! They were books from a research laboratory. What else would they be?

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Were you a scientist?

[essenceborn]

No, I was a test subject.

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[


Hol up ]

And what did that entail, exactly?

[essenceborn]

Test Subject? It means I was created in a laboratory. Does your world have those?

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It does.

Though, generally, any person who resides in one as a test subject is there against their will.

[essenceborn]

[ Against their will...?

...Well. Nenonen definitely wanted to leave after the time loops began. That's when everything started to go wrong, and when everyone started to deteriorate. But before that the thought had never crossed their mind. Nen's whole world existed within the confines of the tower. Nothing existed beyond that until the researchers were gone and their key cards, recovered. ]

Why?

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Because of unscrupulous morals on the parts of their overseers, usually.

Were you asked if you wanted to be there? Were you offered the opportunity to leave?

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[ Nen pauses. ]

...No. They didn't ask us questions like that.